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Powerpoint or not?

With Simon Raybould at Curved Vision

Recently, Google went public with its online alternative to PowerPoint (and I spent some time talking about it here) but it brought to mind all the old rules about how to make a decent presentation - particularly how to avoid the obvious mistakes. If you’ve got just a few seconds short of four minutes to spare, there’s an abject lesson on Youtube about how (not to) do it.

Normally I eschew simply posting a link to somewhere else, but as I’ve given you two destinations in one Talk Tuesday I’ll forgive myself.

Looking for a moment at Google’s new offering, I’ve read in several places that it’s not a useful alternative to PowerPoint because it’s short of features (such as animation and sound effects). I’m afraid I take an alternative approach – if your presentation can’t be written in Google’s Presenter then you’re (probably) trying to do something you shouldn’t. It’s not a hard and fast rule, but it’s worth thinking about. As a tip, if you can’t do it, think about whether you should be trying to do it…

I’d love to hear from anyone who’s used the online presentation software: sme@curved-vision.co.uk.

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